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Wildfires in Jammu and Kashmir
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 10,980 km² of Jammu and Kashmir at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,870 km², ranking 26th of 35 regions of India.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2016, with 3,820 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 654 km². The 2021–2025 average is 21% higher than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
April, May and June together hold 63% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 May 2018, with detections in 298 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 10,980 km² with at least one detection, 32% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 5,360 | 49% |
| 2 years | 2,160 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 2,480 | 23% |
| 6 to 10 years | 953 | 8.7% |
| 11 years or more | 30 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 32.75, 74.75 and holds 17% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,670 | 2,030 |
| 2013 | 1,010 | 1,149 |
| 2014 | 1,480 | 1,745 |
| 2015 | 654 | 720 |
| 2016 | 3,820 | 5,445 |
| 2017 | 1,570 | 2,068 |
| 2018 | 2,880 | 3,654 |
| 2019 | 1,360 | 1,548 |
| 2020 | 1,240 | 1,613 |
| 2021 | 1,360 | 1,607 |
| 2022 | 3,040 | 3,801 |
| 2023 | 834 | 965 |
| 2024 | 3,390 | 4,226 |
| 2025 | 1,860 | 2,169 |
Other regions of India
- Madhya Pradesh38,920 km² in an average year
- Maharashtra31,990 km² in an average year
- Punjab30,530 km² in an average year
- Chhattisgarh28,500 km² in an average year
- Odisha27,930 km² in an average year
- Telangana19,840 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Azad Kashmir, Pakistan108 km
- Punjab, Pakistan109 km
- Himachal Pradesh251 km
- Punjab293 km
- Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan346 km
- Haryana346 km